DVD : A Raisin in the Sun
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9780767828062
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0767828062
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 22, 2000
Running Time: 128 minutes
Sales Rank: 8362
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1961
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When a newly widowed matriarch receives a $10000 life insurance check she soon learns her family has their own ideas on how to best spend the money. Special features: subtitles in english spanish portuguese korean and thai production notes talent files interactive menus scene selections and much more. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 02/22/2000 Starring: Sidney Poitier Louis Gossett Jr. Run time: 127 minutes Rating: Nr
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Lorraine Hansberry's play is given sensitive treatment by filmmaker Daniel Petrie (The Bay Boy). Sidney Poitier heads a fine cast in the story of an African American family in Chicago who are struggling with mixed aspirations, not enough money, conflicts over religion, and institutional racism. The film is pretty much set-bound (as plays adapted for the screen sometimes are), but the drama is intense and moving. --Tom Keogh
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"What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?" So begins what is perhaps Langston Hughes' most famous poem "A Dream Deferred" and ends with the line, "Or does it explode?" The writer Lorraine Hansberry lifted the quotation from Hughes' powerful poem for her equally powerful award-winning play that ultimately became the 1961 film starring Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee and Diana Sands, directed by Daniel Petrie for which Ms. Hansberry wrote the screenplay.
It is safe to say that America had never seen a film quite like this one coming not that long after Brown v. Board of Education and on the eve of the racial change of the 1960's. I saw the film in Syracuse, New York in 1964; and as a white Southerner, I was so pleased with myself. Now over 40 years later it has only gotten better with time. Sad to say, one need only drive though practically any neighborhood in any city in any state in the union to see that unfortunately forty years after the passage of the Federal Fair Housing Act the pupose of which was to make racial discrimination in housing illegal and to promote integration many African American familes experience what the Younger family did in Chicago. They are not welcome in an all-white neighborhood and are confronted with racial prejudice when they try to purhase a home. Our nation remains racially segregated.
But the film is much more than about race. It is also about the conflict of generations and between ... Read More
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great movie... sidney is excellent! its one of those movies that u can watch over and over again.
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A Raisin In The Sun is one of America's greatest tributes to cinema. In a time when racial tension was high, Lorraine Hansberry's tender and telling portrayal of a family (not necessarily a black family) and it's dreams surrounding a large sum of money soon to be coming in the mail, is heartwarming and full of hope in the midst of despair.
I showed this film to my predominantly white group of High schoolers in two sittings and they were very much "into" the play and wanted to know what happened to the family. We had a discussion group and small quiz afterward and I awarded the video to the winner.
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THE BEST VERSION, AS OPPOSED TO THAT P-DIDDY FAKE VERSION ON THE TELLY!!!
ROCK ON PORTIER AND DEE!!!FAR MORE REAL, IMPORTANT AND HEART WRENCHING THAN THAT IMITATION "STAR VEHICLE" BY COMBS.......IF YOU WANT THE REAL DEAL, THIS IS IT!!!!!BRAVO!!!
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The DVD is of very good quality and was delivered on schedule.
It gives me the choice of two formats. It's like having two recordings for the price of one. Couldn't have done much better.
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starring: Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee, Diana Sands, Ivan Dixon
directed by: Daniel Petrie
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9780767828062
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0767828062
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 22, 2000
Running Time: 128 minutes
Sales Rank: 8362
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1961
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